Attended by the people behind Asia’s popular television programmes, this year’s Asian Television Awards 2014 was held last 11th December 2014 at the iconic Marina Bay Sands, Singapore.

Receiving around 1,371 entries from 119 terrestrial, cable and satellite broadcasters and networks from more than 14 countries across Asia Pacific, this marks a 10% increase from last year’s submissions.

Hosted by Harith Iskander, Asia’s best stand-up comedian, together with George Young, Sazzy Falak and Stephanie Carrington, this year’s star-studded event showcased 43 awards including; 38 competing awards, the coveted final 4 awards. Key highlight to this year’s awards is the “Outstanding Contribution to Asian Television” that was presented to the President/CEO of Metan Global Entertainment Group – Larry Namer.

Biggest winner is for the night is – MediaCorp, winning the highly-coveted Terrestrial Broadcaster of the Year for the 11th time at the annual event. This year, MediaCorp garnered record 39 nominations, double the nominations it had last year. MediaCorp won a total of eight awards this year.

MediaCorp Channel 5’s Spouse for House sitcom swept some of the major awards including Best original Screenplay, Best Comedy Programme and Irene Ang took home the Best Comedy Performance by an Actor/Actress.

Actor Pierre Png won the award for Best Leading Actor in Channel 5’s Zero Calling. “Those who say it’s enough to be nominated … they are lying. This is the best feeling in the world,” said Pierre, who was nominated twice in the category, on his win.

Malaysian actress Puteri Balqis Azizi, became the youngest award winner for Best Leading Actress at the age of 7 year old for Balqis – a TV3 telemovie. She beats other seasoned nominees like Serangoon Roads – Joanne Chen, A Good Wife – Tien Hsin and Sudden’s – Rui En.

Taiwan Actress Hsieh Chiung-Hsuan won the award for Best actress in a Supporting Role for “Lonely River” at Hakka Television Station. She won a similar award in October at Taiwan’s 2014 Golden Bell Awards for television and radio. “I’m really thrilled … I love Taiwan,” Hsieh said.

Rayson Tan won the award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for the drama Entangled. “The word ‘happy’ cannot even begin to describe how I feel right now. I feel like I have persevered till the clouds parted and finally saw the light of success,” said Rayson with moist eyes. “MediaCorp has supported me for 24 years. Today I finally had the chance to thank the company on stage.”